Today’s conviction of Khalid Ali, a former Egyptian presidential candidate and prominent human rights lawyer widely viewed as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s top contender for the 2018 presidential elections, is “politically-motivated”, said Amnesty International.

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted president Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood to 25 years in prison in a final ruling over a case accusing him of spying for Qatar, judicial sources said.

An Egyptian court sentenced a senior official in the judiciary to life in prison on bribery and corruption charges in a case that dates back to 2016, the Anadolu Agency reported citing a judicial source.

The Sunday edition of the privately owned Al-Bawaba newspaper was confiscated by unidentified authorities for reporting on the disappearance of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, who has not been seen since he was convicted of corruption in April.